• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Checking Valves, Gone Wrong..... Now Timing Questions :(

TexPerado

TexPerado

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello Husky riders! Been too busy to mess with the new to me TE610 lately, but finally had a day off so I figured I would check valve clearances on my 2008 TE610. Everything was going smoothly, drained tank, drained rads, removed bodywork, etc. Finally cleaned up some grime on the top of the engine and got the 2 valve covers off. At this point, I removed the spark plug and began to rotate the motor to find TDC. Well, today just seemed to be one of those days, because the plastic stick I was using to find TDC had a piece break off in the cylinder :mad:. Anyway, I semi-grupily began to remove the head to remove the debris, and completely forgot to mark the timing chain as I took it off the cam sprocket :mad::mad:.

So I suppose my question is, WHERE ON EARTH ARE THE TIMING MARKS ON THE FLYWHEEL? I see the one on the cam chain but nothing on flywheel/bottom end. Am I blind or just missing something? Thanks in advance fellas!

-Grumpy 610 owner
 
oops...

I take it you didn't have a pickle picker / nut grabber.

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The timing marks are on the gears behind the right side case cover.

Line up the two dots on those gears up front of the clutch.

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I agree with Borgschulze. In this photo, I was pulling the con rod towards the top, so the engine was at TDC.
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Considering that you're going to remove the head, you can check it by yourself.
When you'll re-install the right cover, align the crankshaft with the oil pump shaft, or you'll make damages!
 
Aha! This is why I love the Cafe!!! Any pointers when taking the right case off/putting her back on? How do I align this oil pump shaft? Also, does any maintenance need to be done while I'm in the right side? 3k miles on the bike btw.
 
Just turn the oil pump with your fingers. To align the keyway.

Clean the bag filter while you're in there, and check the torque on the crank nut, make sure it's super tight, so you don't end up with rumble strip vibration.

Also could check the bushing that the clutch rides on.
 
Ok, so bike went back together tonight. I was running the bike in the shop for a while, and then it crossed my mind that the head might not be getting oil =(. But, I completely forgot about aligning the oil pump with the crank before putting the right case on. How do I know if I put it together right and if the head is getting oil? Is there any way to check if I put the whole shebang together correctly without taking right case back off?
 
If you were able to get the side cover on and bolt it down without much effort, the oil pump shaft is lined up. If it weren't you would have to tear something up to get it bolted on.
You could crack a banjo fitting on the oil line loose while it's running.

If you've run it more than a minute and it doesn't sound like a bunch of rocks in a food disposal then you're probably getting oil.
 
TexPerado said:
I completely forgot about aligning the oil pump with the crank before putting the right case on.
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First of all, don't panic.
I strongly recommend that you check your cranckshaft now. Watch the picture I posted: one of the two little pieces that move the oil punp shaft was missing, when I took the photo. Later, I got it welded:
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I didn't post it before in this thread because I already posted it a few times and I assumed that people were a little sick of me writing about that issue.
The damage happened when I didn't re-align the two shafts, a pair of years ago. The engine worked properly, because one of those two pieces is enough to move the pump shaft and, IMO, when the other was broken the pump shaft rotated a little and got aligned.
I'm not the only one who did that: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=255593
So, what should you do if it happened to you?
Well, I removed the cranckshaft from the bike (a mechanic did part of the work), but at the dealer a mechanic told me that they would have been able to weld it on the bike, maybe replacing an oil seal (you don't have to split the cranckcase to replace the seal: you just need to remove the right cover). That mechanic told me that he had already done it on a bike and that the bike has been used for years without related issues.
 
Hello Huskos. Situation averted! I pulled the right case off and all looked well in the kingdom. I suppose I just got lucky. Thanks again for putting my mind at ease. Time to sip celebration whiskey. :cheers:
 
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